National British Home Child Day is being proclaimed in Inverness County.

Warden Bonnie MacIssac states that September 28 will recognize the one hundred thousand children sent to Canada from across the UK.

They emigrated to Canada between the 19th century to the 1970s.

Many of these children became farm workers and domestic help.

Twenty-five thousand of them fought in World Wars one and two as Canadian soldiers.

There are four million Canadians who are direct descendants from these children.